Busy kids! I can hear the sound of that ball through your pictures! Just when I thought that you couldn't take a more adorable picture of Boris and Natasha, you post these! What cute clowns! BTW, do you have a moose and squirrel for them to play with?

I love your puppy posts! I miss our dogs and those puppy days. That is a clematis in your first two photos, right? I have just begun pruning mine along with the climbing roses. I always feel good after a good clean up day, although tired and sore at the end of the day.

Thanks, Dorothy. Yes, that is Clematis 'Wisley'. I cut them at the same time as the roses, too. I feel the same way about garden clean up, like I've accomplished something good, but ouch--at the end of the day, ready for hot bath!

Aaaww, they are really cute! They look like the Samoyed dogs my neighbours had when I was a kid, when I used to live in Norway. They had 8 of them, and at least one of them had puppies at any given time!

I was supposed to be pruning all week-end too, but the weather has been so cold and windy so I gave up. The roses will have to wait for a bit warmer weather :-)